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                                   4348
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, LIFTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
   of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to securing for previous-
   ly tenured administrators and supervisors the same probationary period
   as provided for teachers and all other members of the teaching  staffs
   of school districts in the state
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  1  of  section  3012  of  the
 education  law, as amended by section 4 of subpart D of part EE of chap-
 ter 56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) i. Principals, administrators, supervisors and all  other  members
 of  the  supervising  staff of school districts, including common school
 districts and/or school districts employing fewer than  eight  teachers,
 other than city school districts, who are appointed prior to July first,
 two  thousand  fifteen, shall be appointed by the board of education, or
 the trustees of a common school district, upon the recommendation of the
 superintendent of schools for a  probationary  period  of  three  years;
 PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  IN  THE  CASE  OF A PRINCIPAL, ADMINISTRATOR,
 SUPERVISOR OR ANY OTHER MEMBER OF  A  SUPERVISING  STAFF  WHO  HAS  BEEN
 APPOINTED  ON  TENURE  IN  ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT WITHIN THE STATE, THE
 SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED, OR BY A BOARD  OF  COOPERATIVE
 EDUCATIONAL  SERVICES,  AND  WHO  IS NOT DISMISSED FROM SUCH DISTRICT OR
 BOARD AS A RESULT OF CHARGES BROUGHT  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
 SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWENTY-A OF THIS ARTICLE, THE PROBATIONARY PERIOD
 SHALL  NOT EXCEED TWO YEARS. The service of a person appointed to any of
 such positions may be discontinued at any time during  the  probationary
 period  on  the  recommendation  of  the superintendent of schools, by a
 majority vote of the board of education or  the  trustees  of  a  common
 school district.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   ii.  Principals,  administrators, supervisors and all other members of
 the supervising staff  of  school  districts,  including  common  school
 districts  and/or  school districts employing fewer than eight teachers,
 other than city school districts, who are appointed  on  or  after  July
 first,  two  thousand fifteen, shall be appointed by the board of educa-
 tion, or the trustees of a common school district, upon the  recommenda-
 tion  of the superintendent of schools for a probationary period of four
 years; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN THE CASE OF A  PRINCIPAL,  ADMINISTRA-
 TOR,  SUPERVISOR OR ANY OTHER MEMBER OF A SUPERVISING STAFF WHO HAS BEEN
 APPOINTED ON TENURE IN ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT  WITHIN  THE  STATE,  THE
 SCHOOL  DISTRICT  WHERE CURRENTLY EMPLOYED, OR BY A BOARD OF COOPERATIVE
 EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, AND WHO IS NOT DISMISSED  FROM  SUCH  DISTRICT  OR
 BOARD  AS  A  RESULT  OF  CHARGES BROUGHT PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF
 SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWENTY-A OF THIS ARTICLE, THE PROBATIONARY PERIOD
 SHALL NOT EXCEED TWO YEARS. The service of a person appointed to any  of
 such  positions  may be discontinued at any time during the probationary
 period on the recommendation of the  superintendent  of  schools,  by  a
 majority  vote  of  the  board  of education or the trustees of a common
 school district.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.